The start of 2020 has surely been tough on a lot of people for different reasons. But for me, it has been wrought with challenges that unfortunately have prevented us from chasing our bucket list. Don’t get me wrong, I know that sometimes life can definitely be hard and that means we need to be flexible with our goals. But when things get tough for me, I tend to look for motivational quotes in order to reinvigorate myself and my bucket list dreams.

I find that certain bucket list quotes are a great way to recharge and remind me of my commitment to the bucket list project. Other bucket list quotes, just offer a pick-me-up and make me smile again, which is sometimes all we really need in life.

So, if you are struggling right now in come capacity, hopefully these 36 Quotes will Inspire your bucket list too. The first 5 quotes under each category are standard quotes meant to offer a bit of inspiration. While, the 6th quote under each category is just a funny quote meant to bring a smile to your face.

Adventure Travel Bucket List Quotes

It’s been hard not being able to travel these past few months. But that doesn’t mean we can’t start planning trips when life returns to normal. So to inspire you to start planning, here are our favorite travel bucket list quotes. Fair warning, these quotes may incite fernweh or wanderlust in most people!

1. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
2. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen R. Covey
3. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin
4. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
5. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine
6. FUN QUOTE: “I love flying. I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” – Bob Hope

Adventure Activities & Experiences Bucket List Quotes

There is no doubt that there are some items on the Adventure Activities & Experiences bucket list that require a little motivation to help overcome personal fears! I mean who in their right mind would attempt swimming with the sharks or eating fried tarantulas without a little encouragement. So, here are a few bucket list quotes that will hopefully fire you up too!

1. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne
2. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ― Helen Keller, from The Open Door A Sense
3. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein
4. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”– Seth Godin
5. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ― Jack Kerouac
6. FUN QUOTE: “Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.” ― Mercedes Lackey, from Spirits White as Lightning

Personal Growth Bucket List Quotes

As I get older, it becomes really evident to me that it is very easy to get distracted by outside influences and lose focus on what really matters. In what feels like a matter of seconds, time has just flown by and opportunities to learn and grow sometimes disappear. But luckily the proverbial race isn’t over and if you want it, there are still ways to personally grow. Hopefully these personal growth bucket list quotes will motivate you to focus and get moving like the do for me.

1. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown, from Life’s Little Instruction Book
2. “You can only lose your virginity once. But in every aspect of my life — building businesses, raising a family, embarking upon adventures — I try to do things for the first time every day.” – Richard Branson, from Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography
3. “Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
4. “We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and each one should be really excellent. Because these are our lives.” – Steve Jobs
5. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
6. FUN QUOTE: “If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn

Helping Others Bucket List Quotes 

I am sure we all want to help others if we can. There is nothing worse than seeing someone in this world struggling or even worse suffering. That is why we all need to get out there and try to help others while we have the ability and time to do so. Now, I know for me, it isn’t the lack of desire to want to help others especially when there are Simple Ways to Help Others. No, more often than not it is the lack of motivation. So hopefully, these Helping Others bucket list quotes will get us all moving to make the world a better place.

1. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” – Ronald Reagan
2. “Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do ‘Nothing’ for you” – Mother Teresa
3. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.” – Charles Dickens
4. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
5. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank, from The Play of “The Diary of Anne Frank
6. FUN QUOTE: “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” ― The Dalai Lama

Making Amends Bucket List Quotes

As I have said before, the Making Amends Bucket List is definitely one of the hardest to tackle. In fact it is so hard for me that I have not ticked off a single one of these since I started the Bucket List Project. Perhaps, this is because saying your sorry even for the smallest problems can be really humbling and scary. But, I have seen in some people that forgiveness brought great freedom and joy to both sides of the issue. So, I often look at my favorite Making Amends bucket list quotes listed below in hopes of gathering the strength to at least try.

1. “Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.” ― Bruce Lee
2. “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. “When seeking forgiveness, remember, that forgiveness includes change. Don’t just ask for forgiveness because you are sorry. Ask because you are willing to put the time and effort in to change.” ― Akiroq Brost
4. “You must ask for God’s help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.” – C. S. Lewis
5. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” –  Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. FUN QUOTE: “Sometimes the first step to forgiveness is understanding that the other person is a complete idiot.” – Anonymous

Our Couple’s Bucket List Quotes

Now, I have only been married for a short time but apparently this covenant I agreed to requires a lot of work and maintenance! But that is okay because officially scratching off bucket list item #2) Marry My Soul Mate was truly an amazing event in my life and I feel blessed everyday. So, I use these couple’s bucket list quotes to continue to motivate us to seek out life-changing events together.

1. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” — Lewis Carroll
2. “As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” — A. A. Milne
3. “I have found out there is no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
4. “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” — Antoine Desaint-Exupery
5. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.” – Anonymous
6. FUN QUOTE: “I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.” – Ron White

So now it’s your turn to inspire us with your favorite bucket list quotes! Do you have a favorite quote that motivates you? Has any quote inspired you to tackle an item on your own bucket list project? What is your favorite travel quote you have hanging on your wall? Let us know your favorite quotes about bucket list items in the comments below & help to inspire others!

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